TOM HURNDALL 19th MEMORIAL LECTURE 17 OCTOBER 2025

The 2025 Tom Hurndall Memorial Lecture will be held as the closing session of the GDI Conference on ‘Palestine & Social Justice: Decolonisation and Development Studies’

(register for the whole conference at [email protected])

Time and room tba, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL

This year’s guest speaker: Joseph Daher ’Gaza: a class understanding of the genocide’

Joseph Daher is a Swiss-Syrian academic and expert on the political economy of the Middle East. He is the author of several books, including Hezbollah: The Political Economy of Lebanon’s Party of God (Pluto Press, 2016), Syria After the Uprising (Pluto Press, 2019), and Palestine and Marxism (Resistance Books, 2024). He has taught at several universities, including the University of Lausanne in Switzerland and the University of Ghent in Belgium.

Tom Hurndall was a student at Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU). He was fatally wounded by the Israeli Defence Force whilst protecting Palestinian children in Gaza. He died on January 13th 2004. Since 2005 MMU has hosted a Memorial Lecture which has attracted prestigious figures willing to speak out against what was done in 2004 and what is still being done now by the Israeli State. Organisers of the lecture are from universities in Manchester. MMU have shamefully refused to allow the lecture on its premises, and so for this year we have to hold the lecture in the University of Manchester. For more details about the lectures, visit https://hurndallmemoriallecture.wordpress.com/ or the Tom Hurndall Memorial Lecture page on Facebook.

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